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BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WAS c4 Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

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JOHN EDWARD REDlVIOND, OF SOURIS, MANITOBA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES WASHINGTON BREAKEY AND JAMES HENRY BARTLETT, BOTH OF SOURIS, CANADA.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. REDMOND, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Souris, in the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles, and is especially designed for use upon overshoes, and the like, the object in view being to provide a buckle which may be quickly operated, and which will avoid the puckering or wrinkling of the cloth of the overshoe while tightening the buckle.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, con bination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of the buckle. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view thereof. Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal section through the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the frame member. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the tongue member.

The buckle contemplated in this invention comprises two complement-a1 members, 1 designating the frame member, and 2 the tongue member. The frame is made up from a sheet metal blank, and comprises a base 3, and flanges 4 extending upward from opposite sides of the base. These flanges are inwardly offset, as shown, to provide guide flanges, beneath and between which the tongue 2 is adapted to slide in opening and closing the buckle, said flanges also forming a support for the oppositely'projecting pintles 5 of a spring catch '6 which is pivotally mounted, intermediate its ends, between said flanges. At one end, the catch is turned downwardly and then extended in substantially parallel relation to the base OI the frame 1 to form an engaging lip 7 which is adapted to snap into engagement with any one of the cross bars of the tongue, as the tongue is pushed under the catch in the act of fastening the buckle. The rearwardly extending arm of the catch is provided with an upturned lip 8 to enable the same to be depressed by the operators finger, for the purpose of throwing the engaging point of the catch out of engagement with the tongue. Arranged under the catch is a curved spring 9, one end of which is secured to the catch, near the engaging lip thereof, while the bowed portion of the spring is adapted to bear against the tongue, thereby serving to depress the engaging point of the catch and force the same into engagement with the cross bars of the tongue.

At its outer end the frame is provided with an attaching loop 10 adapting the frame to be secured to an overshoe or any other article, in conjunction with which the buckle as a whole is used. The tongue 2 may be of any suitable length and is provided with a longitudinal series of rectangular apertures 11, leaving a corresponding numberof cross bars 12 adapted to be engaged by the spring pressed catch, hereinabove described. At the outer end of the tongue is an attaching loop 13 and the tongue is further provided at this end with an upstanding lip it, by means of which the operator may tilt the tongue, so as to properly enter the same between the guide flanges of the frame.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen .that it is only necessary. to insert the tongue between the guide flanges of the frame and push the tongue inwardly under the spring catch, the latter snapping into engagement with the cross bars of the tongue and remaining in engagement with the last cross bar engaged, thus holding the buckle tight. To release the tongue, the heel end of the spring pressed catch is depressed, so

as to throw the engaging lip or point thereof out of engagement with the tongue, permitting the tongue to be withdrawn from the frame.

hat is claimed is:

A buckle, comprising frame and tongue members, the tongue embodying a series of cross bars and openings between thesame, the frame embodying guide flanges between which the tongue slides, a catch pivotally supported by and between said guide flanges, In testimony whereof I afliX my signature and a bowed spring fastened to the under in presence of two witnesses.

side of the catch adapting it to ride over JOHN EDWARD REDMOND. the cross bars of the tongue and press the Witnessesz.

5 point of the catch into the spaces between J. W. BREAKEY, said cross bars. S. B. Pons'r.

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